Polish composer living in Spain.

She studied composition at the Academy of Music “Karol Lipiński” in Wrocław (Poland) under Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil, graduating with honours. She has also attended courses of composition in Poland and Spain under Cristóbal Halffter, Toshio Hosokawa, Beat Furrer, Thierry Pécou, Marta Ptaszyńska and others.

The creative output of Alina Błońska includes instrumental, vocal, orchestral and electroacoustic compositions, one of her main sources of inspiration being early music. As a composer and a graduate of Iberian studies (at the University of Wrocław) she is especially fond of Spanish culture which is reflected in her compositions.

The works are characterised by harmonic austerity, colour searching, and have a depth of intimacy and a dramatic power. They have been performed at festivals in Poland (Festival of Polish Music –Cracow, International Days of Cracow’s Composers Music or Musica Polonica Nova –Wrocław, among others), also in France (Polish Composers. The New Generation –Strasbourg), Great Britain (New Music from Poland and the U.K. –Hull), Belarus (International Festival of Contemporary Music “Dialogues” –Minsk) and Germany (Unerhörte Musik –Berlin).

Compositions of Alina Błońska have been performed twice in Sweden where she represented the Polish Music Information Centre at the annual concert of IAMIC –International Association of Music Information Centres– (Göteborg) and the Polish section of ISCM –International Society for Contemporary Music– during the Festival “Listen to our History – told by Sound!” (Gotland).

Outside Europe her work was presented during the XXIV and XXXII Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez in México, where it was included in the programme of LIEM (Laboratorio de Informática y Electrónica Musical –Madrid).

In Spain the compositions of Alina Błońska have been performed in Madrid (during the Conciertos del 500 Aniversario de la Reforma, the XVI-XVII Jornadas de Informática y Electrónica Musical, the soloist’s cycle of the BBVA Foundation, the XXXIV Semana Internacional de Órgano, Encuentros de Composición Injuve 2001-2002), Mallorca (the XI Festival de Música “La Almudaina” and the V Convención Internacional de Percusión), Segovia (the VI Festival Joven de Música Clásica), Sevilla (the III Ciclo de Conciertos y Meditaciones), as well as in other places and on other occasions.

Alina Błońska received a Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage scholarship, a City of Wrocław scholarship and a scholarship of ZAIKS (the Polish Author’s Union) and SIDA (the Baltic Sea Unit). In 2003 she was a prize-winner at the Tadeusz Ochlewski I Competition for Young Composers of the PWM Edition for the work “Wołanie w ciszę”, for solo clarinet, which was published. Alina Błońska was also a triple finalist of Encuentro de Composición Injuve 2000-2001-2002 and awarded with the former prize aequo and with the Audience one in the I Concurso Internacional de Composición “María de Pablos” (Spain).

Her works were recorded by Radio Clásica (Spain) and Polish Radio, as well as being broadcast by Radio Monalisa (Holland), Klassika Raadio (Estonia), Queen Radio Belfast Soundhour and Polish Radio.

In 2011 she obtained a doctorate in composition at the Academy of Music “Karol Lipiński” in Wrocław. Since then she has been giving lectures about the Polish contemporary music in Spain, and Spanish contemporary music in Poland.

In 2016 a monographic concert of Alina Błońska’s compositions took place in Madrid. It was held under the sponsorship of the Polish Cultural Institute and was organized with the collaboration of LIEM-CTE (Laboratorio de Informática y Electrónica Musical-Centro de Tecnología del Espectáculo).

In 2017 she received a commission by Deutschsprachige Evangelische Gemeinde in Madrid to compose a cantata commemorating the 500 anniversary of the Lutheran Reform and in 2018 by the Embassy of Poland for the 100th anniversary of the recovery of independence.